Tourist Time: Part 3

[hrj]

As planned, got up earlyish (for a weekend) this morning to take the Oakland-SF ferry from Jack London Square to the SF Ferry Building. (I had a momentary "did I misread the schedule" moment when the boat went past the Ferry Building for its first stop at Pier 39 -- I hadn't noticed that it does a circle route at that end rather than doing all the stops in a line in each direction.) I highly recommend the trip, whether or not one has out of town guests to provide the excuse. You get an entirely different view of the bay and the various harbors than you get from freeways and bridges. The trip is relatively short and very smooth. It makes me wish we had regular ferry service from either Emeryville or Berkeley. But if I ever decide to do a bike ride on Angel Island, the clear choice is to take the bike over on the ferry.

We had great fun browsing our way through the farmers' market (and I picked up various things for tomorrow's dinner) and bumped into j_i_m_r, tafelspitz, learnteach & friend (who I don't know if she has an LJ handle). Tasted many more delicious things than I was willing to buy and carry home.

I want my own local farmers' market. The neighborhood e-mail list had a note recently from Official Emeryville Sources that negotiations are currently in progress to have one in the E'ville town hall area, I think on Thursdays. The hours would mean I'd have to go straight from work to the market, but I'm looking forward to seeing who/what they get for vendors. I know there are various east bay farmers' markets, but one close enough to bike to and on a week day (so that it could be part of a regular schedule) would be ideal.

Comments

[j-i-m-r.livejournal.com]

How were you planning on getting you and your bike to Angel Island without taking a ferry? :-)

Thanks for the reminder that not all (perhaps most) of my friends don't know what our bayside towns look like from the water in as detailed a fashion as I do :-)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

How were you planning on getting you and your bike to Angel Island without taking a ferry?

Well, I was thinking in terms of "bicycle down to Jack London Square and take the ferry" rather than "load the bike in the car and drive to Sausalito and take the ferry".

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

If learnteach's friend was a tallish woman with short reddish hair it might have been rebecca_barbee. She's an old friend of the_LBK's too.

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

She did introduce herself as Rebecca :-)